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Probes and sensors
News Release from: Balluff UK | Subject: ProSet4 Cylinder Transducer
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 July 2004
Transducers inform on cylinder stroke
position
Designed specifically for cylinder position sensing, a rod-style cylinder transducer has four built-in programmable set-point outputs to detect cylinder end-of-stroke or any position in between.
Designed specifically for cylinder position sensing Balluff's ProSet4, the newest member of Balluff's Micropulse family of rod-style cylinder transducers, offers an entirely new option for cylinder position sensing The ProSet4's built-in programmable set-point outputs can be used to detect cylinder end-of-stroke or any position in between
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 24 Oct 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Advantages.
* Four set-points detect cylinder end-of-stroke or anywhere in between.
* Upgrade from end-of-stroke sensors.
* Installs just like a traditional transducer in probe-ready steel-walled cylinders.
* Auto-Tuning circuitry allows use of Balluff or competitors'magnets.
Designed to be the most versatile cylinder sensor, the ProSet4 provides flexible operation using discrete I/O instead of more costly analogue control inputs.
It installs just like a traditional magnetostrictive displacement transducer in probe-ready steel-walled cylinders and eliminates the need for pressure-rated end-of-stroke sensors or multiple external proximity sensors, brackets, targets, cables, and connection blocks.
The ProSet4 has two easy programming options - local, using a handy programming tool, or remote, using teach-in connections.
Interfacing a ProSet4 with a direct input ramping proportional valve allows simple set-up of speed and position ramping profiles, without the need for an additional dedicated axis motion controller.
Balluff have a complete range of photoelectric measurement sensors ranging from 20mm to 6000mm detection.
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